Jeremy Martin is concluded his sixth season as the head baseball coach at Thomas More University following the 2024-25 academic year.
The 2025 season saw the Saints go 16-30 on the season with a 9-20 G-MAC record.
In the Saints inaugural season in the G-MAC and DII, the team finished with an overall record of 14-35 and 7-25 in conference. Coach Martin recorded his 100th career win in the Saints conference win over Walsh on March 24 (5-4).
The Saints finished the 2023 season with a record of 32-19, which is their most victories in a season since the 2010 squad won 33 games.
In his third season (2022), Martin led the Saints to a 30-16 overall record, and a third place regular season finish in the Mid-South Conference with a record of 15-7.
In his second season (2021), Martin led the Saints to a 25-18 overall record and an 11-11 Mid-South Conference record.
In his first season as the skipper, Martin led the Saints to a 4-13-1 record including a 1-2 mark in the Mid-South Conference before the season was canceled due to COVID-19. In his second season, the Saints had a 25-28 overall record and went 11-11 in the conference. Martin help lead the Saints in a 3-3 record in the Mid-South Conference Tournament in Bowling Green, Ky.
Martin spent the previous 20 seasons as the top assistant and pitching coach at Thomas More. He came to Thomas More from Wilmington College where he served as an assistant coach. Martin also has two years of experience as a high school pitching coach and was a head coach of a collegiate level summer team.
Martin was a four-year baseball letter winner at Lawrenceburg High School in Indiana, where he also played basketball and football. After high school, he attended the University of Cincinnati where he was a four-year starter for the Bearcats and was a co-captain his senior season. While at Cincinnati, Martin earned the Jerry Strom Award, an award for hustle and determination, during his senior year. In 1994, teams of minor leaguers and ex-major league players were assembled in Cincinnati, Ohio and Cleveland, Ohio to play a best of three World Series because of the Major League Baseball (MLB) strike. Martin had the privilege to play on the Cincinnati team coached by ex-Cincinnati Red Tom Browning and pitch with Pat Zachery, a 14-game winner for the 1976 “Big Red Machine.”
From 1994-96, Jeremy played professional baseball; 1994 and 1996 in the Frontier League and 1995 in the Pioneer League, an advance rookie league.
In his 20 years as the pitching coach at Thomas More, the Saints have earned a .639 winning percentage. In 2000, his first season, the Saints made it to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in school history and since have been to the NCAA Tournament in 2003, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2018. He has coached 27 All-Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) pitchers with one being the Pitcher of the Year. Seven of his pitchers have been named All-Region with one being named Second Team All-America by d3baseball.com.
Martin resides in Rising Sun, Indiana, with his wife, Molly and their daughter, Lucy and son, Dylan.
YEAR BY YEAR COACHING RECORD AT THOMAS MORE |
|
OVERALL |
CONFERENCE |
|
YEAR |
WIN |
LOSS |
TIE |
WIN |
LOSS |
POSTSEASON |
2020 |
4 |
13 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|
2021 |
25 |
28 |
|
11 |
11 |
|
2022 |
30 |
16 |
|
15 |
7 |
|
2023 |
32 |
19 |
|
16 |
10 |
|
2024 |
14 |
35 |
|
7 |
25 |
|
2025 |
16 |
30 |
|
9 |
20 |
|
Overall |
121 |
141 |
1 |
59 |
75 |
6-7 in the Mid-South Conference Tournament |
Win % |
.460 |
.339 |
|